Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town

Hello Mastodon. I'm an illustrator with a focus on animals and monsters from folklore, and I just restarted my art blog on that same subject. Today was the first post in over a year but if you're new there's over 400 entries in the archive to check out.
https://arcanebeastsandcritters.tumblr.com/
My day job is killing me and living and transition expenses are piling up so I'm going to try and have a go at making a living off this art stuff, so have the standard Patreon link
https://www.patreon.com/tashepard and a Twitch stream for drawing (and some WoW) https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard/dashboard
#Mastoart #art #monsters

Also no one's watching the Twitch. Not that I assume YT would magically fix that but it makes me less attached to keep using the former.

Not crazy about them and wanna test it out first but thinking I might move the art livestreaming to YT, Twitch is more... ephemeral than suits my needs and I can incorporate it with Patreon better, switch between public and private backer streams and such.

It's kind of weird that Varian had led the Alliance since launch but the Horde goes through Warchiefs like Defense Against The Dark Arts professors.

Three Tauren tribes represent

While on that tip, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc

'Cause I can handle the art duties but I'm going to need one of you data-goblins to magick it onto a phone.

(A data goblin is actually a good idea for the game, lemme write that down...)

If I don't get the podcast moving soon I may move on to my mobile game idea. Mastodon feels like a good community to be a part of for that.

A guillotine.

Little kid could only ask where the Five Nights At Freddy's toys are as "FNAF", as in "Fuh-naff", so we have reached the point where the internet has caused irreparable damage to the future.

Streaming today's monster: Ariel School Aliens https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard

Reminded of this old Thanos piece today

I predicted like four years ago that MCU Thanos was going to be what happened to Red Skull after getting sent on a Space Adventure by the Tesseract. I doubt at this point they'd diverge that much from the source but still think it'd be neat.

I cannot account for what happened to his accent in this scenario.

Picked a monster for tomorrow I held off on during the original run because I had no idea how to draw its vague, contradictory description.

I still don't, so that's gonna be a blast to figure out.

On the other end of the spectrum, I do enjoy Who Shot Ya as a film podcast that I don't think has ever had a straight white dude on as a co-host.
If anyone has any recommendation on good film podcasts that aren't the two-to-three-white-dudes-yammering format I'd love to hear about 'em.

Should say to start I'm not *against* white/straight/cis voices in a conversation so long as they're one of many perspectives being recognized

but one of the dudes from SYSK started a middle-aged-white-dude-yammering-about-films podcast, and of the six guests he lists in the ad, four are more middle aged white dudes, only one guest is queer and none are people of color. Just on a marketing level nothing about this makes me want to check out the show.
But I checked the archive, and out of the 20 episodes with guests he's never had on a single POC and only three women, so it's not just a failing on the advertising's part.

Also I want that Becky Lynch fashion doll and hope those did well enough to get a second wave with Asuka.

I fell off watching WWE after I dropped Hulu a while back but I'm delighted all the toys coming out right now are all the weird stuff from before I left like circa Festival of Friendship Owens and Jericho or the Miz dressing up like Cena.

I just realized I hadn't seen anything from Clickhole in a while so I checked if they were still around or had shuttered because the real world had gotten too crazy to parody and I am so glad I checked today:

The 5 Neighbor Kids Who Drink From The Birdbath In My Backyard, Ranked By Whether It Seems Like They’re Doing It For Fun Or Survival http://www.clickhole.com/article/5-neighbor-kids-who-drink-birdbath-my-backyard-ran-7497

People acting like Shape of Water broke down the monster-banging barriers, but this film came out over 30 years ago.